Thursday, August 20, 2009

Quinn picks ex-Washington aide for CTA board

Clout St:
Gov. Pat Quinn today introduced a think tank executive who's also a former top aide to the late Mayor Harold Washington as his pick to sit on the Chicago Transit Authority board.

Jacky Grimshaw, 66, of Hyde Park, is the vice president of policy at the Center for Neighborhood Technology. She said she wants to focus on getting rail service for the Far South Side.

"It's been on the books for 20 years," Grimshaw said at a news conference inside the Clark and Lake CTA station as people shuffled to and from trains. "I think it’s time that we take the capital funds that we have and start looking at how we can invest those and create the rail option for people on the Far South Side."
Visit her organization @ http://www.cnt.org/

UPDATE 5:11 More from the Sun-Times:
Gov. Quinn today appointed Jacquelyne "Jacky" Grimshaw — vice president of policy for the Center for Neighborhood Technology — to the CTA board.

Grimshaw replaces Sheila Nix, who resigned. Nix is the former deputy governor under indicted former Gov. Rod Blagojevich who put together the seniors-ride-free program.

Grimshaw previously worked for the city of Chicago under then-Mayor Harold Washington as director of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs and later as deputy city treasurer.

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